All 10 X-Men Movies In The Order You Must Watch Them
3. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Hopefully this is the last movie that does the decade jumping gimmick. Trying to believe that 2011 and 2016 James McAvoy are actually 20 years apart in age is a tough pill to swallow.
As far as placement in watching this movie, it's takes place in the new split timeline in the 1980s. Everything from beyond this point should hopefully be fairly linear in viewing order, but who knows where future X-Men movies will fall?
This movie has to go here for continuity's sake. You can't watch the prequel trilogy first and then the original trilogy. For characters in the original timeline, the events in this film would have taken place in a different way. While we don't know every difference, we can pinpoint that Mystique joining the X-Men and Angel dying are two things that never happened before the split.
Apocalypse also shows that Stryker still managed to get Wolverine to volunteer for the Weapon X program, but with different results. This time we see that he was caged and had his memories wiped by something other than a magic bullet that makes it so his "memories won't grow back".